A Second Front in Europe

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image: top section shows a panorama of a battlefield with a soldier in silhouette jumping from the Channel into an area
marked 'Europe'. To his left is a scene showing a battleship firing inland and a landing craft discharging its troops onshore. There are
two fighter aircraft flying above the scene. To his right a tank fires into the distance and a wounded man in ragged clothes, armed only
with a club, sits astride the body of a dead German soldier, holding his hand up in the V-sign.
text: A SECOND FRONT IN EUROPE TO ATTACK NOW WHILE HITLER IS BEING HAMMERED IN RUSSIA IS THE WAY TO WIN THIS YEAR COMMUNIST PARTY
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Over two million American servicemen passed through Britain during the Second World War. In 1944, at the height of activity, up to half a million were based there with the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). Their job was to man and maintain the vast fleets of aircraft needed to attack German cities and industry.